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Martellus Bennett is expected to show up for the start of training camp and the tight end is expected to stay in camp.
But with the Bears fantasist,...

MINNEAPOLIS — Not long after the Bears finished their season Sunday, closing the books with a 13-9 loss to the Vikings, coach Marc Trestman arrived for his postgame news conference at TCF Bank Stadium displaying little emotion and showing once again that...

With the ball in the red zone, quarterback Jay Cutler and the Bears can use the pick route to create a one-on-one situation for running back Matt Forte on the quick rail concept versus the Vikings man-coverage scheme.
As shown here, the Bears have...

The Bears should prepare for the Saints defense Monday night to send pressure in passing situations with Rob Ryan's unit disguising coverages in the secondary to set some traps for quarterback Jay Cutler.
As shown here, the Bears have their Posse/11...

It wasn't really a mutiny of any kind. The suggestion, Jared Allen said, actually came from Bears defensive coordinator Mel Tucker himself.
With the defense in need of resuscitation after humiliating losses to the Patriots and Packers, Bears defensive...

The pass rush is coming. That much the Bears know.
As preparation for Sunday's game against the Vikings continues at Halas Hall, there has been an acknowledgment within the offense that a solid plan must be established to account for a defense that has...

First-year Vikings coach Mike Zimmer is on high alert this week, taking nothing for granted in light of the Bears' non-competitive showings in their last two games.
"In the NFL, every game is so different," he said on a teleconference call Wednesday....

The Chicago Bears (3-6) are adrift after their second straight non-competitive loss. The 55-14 drubbing by the Packers established a new low for the franchise in general manager Phil Emery’s tenure.
There were no coaching staff changes in the...

The Chicago Bears’ season disintegrated in spectacular fashion Sunday night in a 55-14 loss to the Green Bay Packers. Stunningly, the Bears managed to sink lower than their 51-23 loss to the New England Patriots in Week 8. They appeared totally lost...

There isn't a turning point in a 55-14 loss. The thorough beating begins early and remains intense throughout.
But there were a handful of plays that helped the Bears into an enormous hole Sunday night in their embarrassing loss to the Packers at Lambeau...

Coach Marc Trestman leads the Bears back to work Monday after using the week off to examine the litany of reasons they begin the second half of the season in a 3-5 hole.
Trestman and his assistants searched for ways to improve the offense's run-pass...

After losing to the Dolphins, a game in which he threw another interception and committed another fumble on a sack, Jay Cutler had nothing for you.
“I wish I had some more answers,’’ Cutler said with resignation, as if his usual postgame edge had been...

You start with a quarterback who remains unreliable from one week to the next, one half to the next, one pass to the next.
Then you add an offensive-minded head coach who exhibits curious clock management and seems to have little consistent effect on his...

Before Matt Ryan took his left hand off the ball and cocked his right arm to throw, Bears fill-in middle linebacker Darryl Sharpton was breaking on a slant route to Roddy White.
It was third-and-3 on the Bears' 36-yard line and the Falcons had already...

I heard people trying to say the first half Sunday was the Bears' best of the season.
Sorry, but I found it perhaps the most boring of the year.
Two bad-to-mediocre defenses were playing fairly well. Or two supposedly loaded offenses were playing some...

Welcome back to “The Blitz Package,” your weekly destination for notable news, nuggets and intriguing Chicago Bears storylines. This week’s topic: the offensive woes in the second half of Sunday’s 31-24 loss to the Panthers.
The Bears left Charlotte on...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Ten thoughts after the Chicago Bears squandered a 14-point lead and lost to the Carolina Panthers 31-24 Sunday afternoon at Bank of America Stadium.
1. Like every other opponent, the Panthers were concerned about the big, athletic...

The Tribune's Brad Biggs tackles readers' questions.
Seriously, how does Mel Tucker still have a job? -- @klaramee2 from Twitter
I get the angst over the performance of the defense in the loss to the Packers but this was a complete loss across the...

For an autopsy of what went wrong for the Bears in Sunday's 38-17 loss to the Packers at Soldier Field, you could sort through a series of frustrating plays in which multiple levels of the defense failed simultaneously.
Take for example the 22-yard...

The sting of Sunday’s 38-17 home loss to the Green Bay Packers clearly didn’t temper the enthusiasm of Chicago Bears tight end Martellus Bennett, who met with reporters Monday at Halas Hall to recap the defeat. As usual, Bennett was his loquacious self,...